Automated WordPress Development

Whether or not you make it to WordCamp Seattle, you too can benefit from merging Grunt into your WordPress development workflow!

A best-practice in web development is to keep JS and CSS to a minimum by merging multiple files and minifying that file so it downloads quickly. This is a tedious process for many, and easily forgotten during a manual release packaging process.

Grunt is a local development tool that helps optimize this workflow, empowering developers and designers to focus on what they do best. It streamlines both active development and the final release process when pushing code to production.

Grunt plays well with WordPress – there are even tools available to kickstart your new project with minimum configuration. [Continue reading]

JavaScript Astrophysics

As computers continue to develop and grow, so do the things they're capable of; just about any laptop capable of playing FarmVille can also run a sophisticated astrophysics simulation.  In college, it took me a few minutes with a room-sized … [Continue reading]

Plugin Review – Spam Free WordPress

A friend of mine directed me to a new spam fighting plugin via a retweet today. https://twitter.com/SureFireWebServ/status/337579757287907328 I'm always on the lookout for cool new software, and as I highly respect my friend's opinion, I had to … [Continue reading]

Ludicrous Speed: WordPress Caching with Redis

On any given request, the cache returns in 3-10ms.

When I first started hosting my own sites, I had no idea what caching was or why it was important.  Then I wrote a couple of popular blog posts, and my server crashed. Fast forward a few years, and I'm running a few different websites on a few … [Continue reading]

The Hackiest Hack that Ever Was Hacked

I was first introduced to Plupload when I was building websites in .Net.  I had some great HTML5 file upload tools that worked wonders in my browser of choice, but most of my colleagues (and about 80% of our clients) were using a browser that … [Continue reading]

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